Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

ColinMarquardt wrote:

greencaps wrote:

My aim is to leave with readable maps in my navigator the next time I leave for Russia.

mkgmap is kinda prepared to do transliteration for you. See this thread:
http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgm … 03808.html

From how I read that thread: it's difficult to determine automatically which transliteration table you should use.

Steve Ratcliffe wrote:

As I understand it though, you really need to know the language and not just the character set in many cases. There has already been a posting saying that the Cyrillic transliteration should be different for non-Russian languages. So perhaps a somewhat different approach is needed.

So ultimately I wish we could automatically transliterate from Japanese, Indian, Malayan, Greek, Russian, Chinese, etc to English so a readable map for the whole world would be possible... Dunno if this is possible at all, my searches all lead to transliteration from a specified language to English instead of language detection...

I found this page which seems to do a pretty solid job and is using Java, although I cannot find any source code. Perhaps a good starting point for Mkgmap? Or this python solution.